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Title: Orc Nation: The State of the American Police State
Source:
Zero Gov
URL Source: http://zerogov.com/?p=4611#more-4611
Published: Dec 28, 2015
Author: Bill Buppert
Post Date: 2016-05-01 03:35:44 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1545
Comments: 13
“McDonald threatened the officers, said Pat Camden, the FOP rep. The officers were in fear for their lives, this former spokesman for the Chicago Police Department asserted. Jason Van Dyke, the officer identified as the killer by the Chicago Tribune, “discharged his weapon, striking the offender.” Such is the language of all police shootings—until an autopsy occurs, or an eyewitness comes forward, or video evidence contradicts an officer’s statement. “The story has 24 hours and it’s basically told by the police union, and the police union’s role is to defend its members,” says Jamie Kalven, a Chicago journalist who runs the Invisible Institute, a police-accountability nonprofit. In a July interview with The Daily Beast, Kalven stressed the importance of independent autopsies—especially in cases like McDonald’s. “What you do have with the autopsy, though, is one wholly independent piece of evidence.” McDonald’s autopsy is a brutal document to read. I breezed through it in a conference room at the Cook County President’s Office in May, along with the 18 other autopsies detailing the deaths of those who died at the hands of the Chicago Police Department last year. Going through them, making sure they were all there, it can be easy to forget that these were once lives and not simply stacks of paper bundled four inches high.” The Cop Shooting So Horrific It Cost $5 Million to Hide Laquan McDonald is just one of more than a thousand corpses in a morbid pile that is a testament to the bloodthirstiness of the political class and their willing executioners in the police departments that litter the landscape of America like an occupation force. Here is the autopsy report if you can stomach the analysis. Death by cop is at a high tide this year. It even takes a British newspaper instead of the American central government to track the numbers. The goons at the FBI have reluctantly taken the reigns on the Feds tracking the police predations. We all know the Federal government simply couldn’t afford to track such numbers with their police satraps. Remember the meme several years ago where the claim was made that more Americans die at the hands of badged thugs than terrorists to the tune of about 400 per annum? All the savvy observers knew these numbers were wrong. The police are the pointy end of all politics planet-wide and it just so happens that some of the worst abuse on the globe occurs in the land of the free and the home of the brave. No political bad actor (aren’t they all) could deprive a single person of individual liberty and freedom absent these willing legions of statist janissaries with a mandated license to kill. Occam’s Razor would help us determine why so few cops are held accountable for their mayhem and the answer is breathtakingly simple and elegant; if the state apparatus couldn’t use kidnapping, maiming and killing to enforce its political will, who would obey. Thus the license to kill granted the thin black and blue line. Make no mistake, they are simply muscle for the political class and nothing less and nothing more. The police are the feeder mechanism for a vast obedience maintenance system that benefits the state in myriad ways from the fear of the most mundane laws to bloating the government prison systems with parolees, probationers and actual inmates. Let’s examine the number of cops that die year after year to demonstrate the interesting imbalance and how the police pad their own figures of line of duty deaths to exaggerate actual deaths on the job. How many cops died during this same year, compared to 1124 mundane corpses stacked like cordwood in police engagements so far? 46 to include 7 by “vehicular assault.” 46 as opposed to 1124. (Thanks, Pete) The clever lads at the site consider K9s to be the equivalent of humans. I’m OK with that if the cops afforded the same courtesy to the thousands of dogs they murder every year. These are their own figures. Be very aware of the way figures are calculated on the site because three of the latest fatalities are the cop on cop corpse stacking in Puerto Rico recently. Incidentally, gunfire deaths are down 20 percent this year for esteemed police officers but this is a banner year for cops murdering citizens. And not only with guns even that is the police state tool of choice. 48 have died this year from “less than lethal” tasers. 32 have been struck by police vehicles. 40 have died in police custody after being officially kidnapped by the authorities. Last but not least, these bloody agents of the political state have shot more than one thousand human beings. I always have to repeat the caveat that these numbers are most likely under-, non- and mis-reported when it comes to “civilian” deaths at the hands of American law enforcement. What isn’t tracked is the number of people beaten and maimed by cops, daily aggregating into annual numbers. The veritable flood tide of Internet viral videos has revolutionized the optics and access to the overwhelming evidence that American policing has taken an even worse turn for non-accountable and savage behavior, incidentally provided legal and political cover by the rulers. I suspect that police have always been this savage; it’s simply that technology has provided a record-keeping mechanism for their mayhem now, much to their chagrin. The other literal black hole in reporting is the vast gulag complex the US government and its satraps maintains across the land. With the highest per capita prison population on planet Earth, no one knows how many inmates die each year as a direct result of murder committed or encouraged by the esteemed “correctional” forces inside these walls. No one tracks the number of inmates maimed by guards or who spend months, if not years, in solitary confinement in a “prison within the prison”. The prison rape phenomenon, which gets a curiously homoerotic smile and a wink and a nod in most cop procedurals televised today, is simply a subtle homage to the sly assent to torture that permeates American policing. From beatings to kicks to the head and groin, batons, tasers, pepper spray, dogs and eventual killing of their many victims, cops are legally authorized vendors of political mayhem on America’s streets. These Orcs do as they are told, hence their fondness for the “orders” defense. Don’t think for a moment there is anything apolitical about the state of US copdom. These creatures are bought and paid for Praetorians that make political will actionable. These are the same people who insist that, along with a head nod from the entire corpus of American jurisprudence, that the Nuremberg defense is a powerful tool to shield them from being held accountable for their actions; they will have a US approved license to kill. The term correctional is just as misleading as the media complex suppositions of the use of law enforcement on the streets outside the prison system, where the thin black and blue line is constantly patrolling looking for eligible candidates to be swept off the street into the maw of the justice system. Collared for a raft of laws that have nothing to do with justice, and everything to do with enforcing obedience and compliance to a massive government apparatus whose sole mission appears to be the destruction of individual liberty and freedom at every turn. This is in the best tradition of the slave patrols they originated from. There are 19,000 police departments in America, nearly a million badged thugs and their janissaries, and all are de facto and de jure Federalized law enforcement preying on the population as if they are an occupation army, enforcing a raft of politically authored malum prohibitum laws that make individual volition a sad memory across the fruited plain. The plain and simple truth is that the War on Drugs was a declaration of war on the entire population of the US, started with the Volstead Amendment and ratcheting forth to Nixon’s formal declaration of combat against illegal vegetation in 1972. The US government has used this as a convenient mechanism to render transparent every human transaction in the country, on the suspicion of everything from “illicit” use of cash to gutting of previously weak 4th and 5th Amendment protections in concert with national security excuses to make privacy a dead issue in American jurisprudence. You’ll notice this transparency does not have a converse analog in that the government reveals everything of its malodorous activities to anyone who challenges it. I’ve pointed out how the rule of law is a farce; at best a comforting chimera, and at worst a powerful tool to allow the central government to commit any act of savagery or barbarity on whomever it wants. This is what governments do. Remember that “politician” is a polite colloquialism for violence brokers. These are the individuals allegedly responsible for the levers and controls of the state’s monopoly on initiated aggression they authorize themselves to commit on the aforementioned mass of humanity. The police violence epidemic is simply a residual of the whole savage enterprise that is the central government in the US. Laboring under vast economic malpractice, endemic corruption, existential moral bankruptcy and a failed imperial project aboard, I can only wish for its death throes. But history is littered with the dust of collapsed empires that render great harm and mayhem to their civilian population in the process of dissolution. Statist government serves one primal goal: to allow a host or nomenklatura to clear-cut and strip-mine a population of all its time and resources, using threats and initiated violence, manipulating its court jesters and sycophants in the government media-education complex to put a happy face to the barbaric venture. While I think the artificial distinction between left and right is silly (it is simply coercionist versus individualist), I am amused at the gyrations both ends of the alleged spectrum will go to defending and rationalizing the feral and bloodthirsty practice that characterizes the state today. With rare exceptions, the right wing conservative fetishizes war and law and order, while his analog on the left knows that – absent the ball bat and club – no one would hand over the blood money to pay for the massive redistribution machine they champion. The Government Tea[t] Party is no exception. Both are obsequious client-creatures of big government, unwittingly or not. The statist police are the means by which this vision is made real and palpable. So if you ever ask yourself, why are they permitted in most every case to get away with murder and mayhem, there is your answer. Absent the vicious enterprise of law enforcement, no politician could own man’s liberty. Not one. The police are the standing army the Anti-Federalists warned us about. Newton’s Third Law is ironclad and history proves that resistance is not always futile. No, the nature of the police state in America makes resistance fertile indeed. Resist. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
The attitude you are attempting to implant is that it is acceptable to resist arrest … that attitude of impudence, arrogance, and aggressiveness towards police officers can be deadly. The takeaway from this article shows that. It is a simple and proven fact that … The place to argue with police action is in court, not in the middle of the street.
The American colonists had two choices in dealing with the Redcoats: obey them or shoot them. Arguing with them meant they'd shoot you. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. For my part, I'd rather not have an underclass revolution in this country. It would mess up my nice life. Therefore, I'm in favor of relaxing the sin crimes. If people want to fornicate and medicate and gamble their lives away, we can provide warnings to them and give them a way out, but greatly enhancing the use of force to punish it all is a fool's game. It's cheaper to treat the victims of excess than to wage war on sin, and a lot cheaper to let them be than provoke them and have riots. You know how Republicans are all "Laissez-faire, laissez-aller" about economics? They would be better off being laissez-faire about private sins.
The American people have two choices in dealing with wrong laws and bad politicians ... change the laws, replace the politicians. I don't see how rebelling against the police in the street will do either.
Laquan McDonald was a piece of shit, drug-dealing gangbanger who was high on PCP at the time and who refused to drop the knife he was holding. Once the decision to use deadly force was made, the number of shots fired by one cop or twenty cops is irrelevant. If you want to limit the number of shots fired then mandate that each cop only carry three rounds and see what happens
Treat them using whose money? Mine? You're saying that I should vote to legalize all drugs thereby allowing users to totally f**k up their life, stealing and prostituting themselves for money while spreading disease and misery. Then I should pay to take care of them? Uh. Nope.
Is that so? Well here's just three examples that show why your theory doesn't hold water. Cop Executes Man as He is Lying Face Down and Complying Officer Lisa Mearkle of the Hummelstown Borough Police Department was found not guilty of criminal homicide for the shooting death of 59-year-old David Kassick on February 2. Video has just been released from the Taser camera which was deployed before she fired two bullets into the man’s back, as he lay face down on the ground in full compliance with her orders. In the charge of criminal homicide, the arrest affidavit stated: “At the time Officer Mearkle fires both rounds from her pistol, the video clearly depicts Kassick lying on the snow covered lawn with his face toward the ground, furthermore, at the time the rounds are fired nothing can be seen in either of Kassick’s hands, nor does he point or direct anything toward Officer Mearkle.” An unarmed man who was shot and killed by an Arizona police officer in January cried, complied with police orders and begged for his life before the fatal firing, according to a newly released police report. Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of Daniel Shaver, a 26-year-old Texas man. Authorities have declined to release Brailsford’s body cam footage from the deadly encounter. Kansas Cops Shoot Suicidal Woman Dead After She Complies with Orders In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much I have long since learned that your yellow journalism articles show nothing but biased information with edited facts to advocate the position of an author you happen to agree with. I don’t form conclusions of make judgments from yellow journalism articles. Now, you go find a transcript and a video of the entire Officer Lisa Mearkle trial and then I probably will say, as the jury of her peers did, that I agree with the jury of Officer Mearkle’s peers when they found her not guilty of criminal homicide for the shooting death of 59-year-old David Kassick. You want to sell shit, then you can have the Little Sir Echo from your ahem corner that follows you around buy it, as he usually does. But I will not buy it, if for no other reason that it stinks to Holy Hell and back. I stand by my statement:
New York Post? You're a fucking joke. ALL of those stories have links to MSM sources. I stand by my statement: If you comply upon the LEO request, then smiles and politeness will reign. I gave three examples of why you are a complete assclown. I could post dozens more, but you'll just whine and pout and stomp your widdle feet. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Jayson Blair, a journalist formerly with The New York Times resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and Yellow journalism.
Nope!
Question : How stupid does one have to be to NOT know the difference between the NY Daily News, The NY Post, and The NY Times. Answer : pretty fucking stupid. The article was not even written by Jayson Blair you blithering simpleton. With all due respect, you're a waste of oxygen. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Answer : pretty fucking stupid. Question: How stupid does one have to be to NOT realize that journalist in the NY Daily News, The NY Post, The NY Times along with any and all other publications can, and many do, have an agenda and send out biased information ... i.e. yellow journalism? Answer: Pretty fucking stupid. With all due respect, you need to start thinking clearly and objective. I was showing you that it happens in all publications with the Jason Blair parallel.
I don't see how rebelling against the police in the street will do either. The American people have far more than two choices in dealing with wrong laws. They can universally break them and overwhelm the system. They could add shooting the cops to that. Or outright rebellion. They could refuse to convict their fellow citizens when they are tried for their crimes. There are all sorts of things they COULD do. I agree with you that rebelling against the police in the street will not work out well in the end, at least not for me, so I agree that reform through the political processs preferrable. But I recognize that there are many more avenues for changing things and attacking them than the peaceful, law abiding political approach. And this is a key reason, then, to keep the political process working and to avoid corruption in it, because if people find that they cannot get things changed through their government anymore, they'll rebel.
Newton’s Third Law is ironclad and history proves that resistance is not always futile …
You control the level of violence, not the LEO. If you comply upon the LEO request, then smiles and politeness will reign. If you comply only when the LEO issues a stern command, tempers will rise. If you force the officer to lay hands on you, you are committing a crime, and so forth. One way or another, you will be forced to comply. You control how much force the LEO uses by how easily you comply.
#2. To: Gatlin (#1)
#3. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
The American colonists had two choices in dealing with the Redcoats: obey them or shoot them.
For my part, I'd rather not have an underclass revolution in this country ,,,
I'd rather have a "political revolution" in this country and the American people have discovered the right person to lead that ... Donald Trump.
#4. To: Deckard (#0)
#5. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
"It's cheaper to treat the victims of excess ..."
#6. To: Gatlin (#1)
If you comply upon the LEO request, then smiles and politeness will reign.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#7. To: Deckard (#6)
(Edited)
If you comply upon the LEO request, then smiles and politeness will reign.
Yes that is SO!
Is that so? Well here's just three examples that show why your theory doesn't hold water. If you comply upon the LEO request, then smiles and politeness will reign.
#8. To: Gatlin (#7)
yellow journalism articles
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
(Edited)
yellow journalism articles
New York Post?
You're a fucking joke.
… wait for it … wait for it … FABRICATION in his stories.
The New York TImes.
You’re fucking stupid.
It happens even in NYC publications.
#10. To: Deckard (#8)
I could post dozens more, but you'll just whine and pout and stomp your widdle feet.
I would continue evaluating the articles you post to determine whether or not the material presents evidence of a bias or agenda on the part of the author, because information that is not presented objectively may be skewed in favor of a particular point-of-view, position, or ideology. A resource that is biased or written in support of an agenda may contain misinformation, ignore or misrepresent facts, or present information--such as statistics or quotations--out of context in a manner that negates their value as source material. Researchers should understand that evidence of bias or agenda may not be obvious from just a simple reading of the resource in question.
#11. To: Gatlin (#9)
(Edited)
Jayson Blair, a journalist formerly with The New York Times resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and … wait for it … wait for it … FABRICATION in his stories.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: Deckard (#11)
(Edited)
Question : How stupid does one have to be to NOT know the difference between the NY Daily News, The NY Post, and The NY Times.
#13. To: Gatlin (#3)
The American people have two choices in dealing with wrong laws and bad politicians ... change the laws, replace the politicians.
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